 | Joseph Story - Constitutional history - 1851 - 642 pages
...but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Maryland. Constitutional Convention - Constitutional conventions - 1851 - 620 pages
...liable only "to be revoked or altered by those who made it." — [2 Dallas' »cp. p. 304 ] tablisli, for their future Government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduced to ibeir own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected.... | |
 | Theophilus Parsons - Constitutional law - 1861 - 38 pages
...character, whose fame, and whose words I hold in profound reverence. In Marbury's case, he says : " That the people have an original right to establish,...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected," and adds that a denial... | |
 | John Fulton - Constitutional history - 1864 - 582 pages
...but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Andrew Johnson - Impeachments - 1868 - 532 pages
...but happily not of an intricacy proportioned to its interests. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Benjamin Robbins Curtis, Alexander James Dallas, William Cranch, United States. Supreme Court, Henry Wheaton, Richard Peters, Benjamin Chew Howard - Law reports, digests, etc - 1870 - 708 pages
...but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Ohio. Supreme Court - Law reports, digests, etc - 1913 - 674 pages
...of Chief Justice Marshall in the case of Marbury v. Madison, 1 Cranch, 137. In that case it is said: "That the people have an original right to establish,...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. * * * The principles,... | |
 | Adolphe de Pineton marquis de Chambrun - Constitutional history - 1874 - 320 pages
...decision in Marbury against Madison, Chief Justice Marshall clearly asserted this claim. He says " That the people have an original right to establish,...as in their opinion shall most conduce to their own happiness; it is the base on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this... | |
 | Law - 1920 - 516 pages
...themselves in the exercise of their legislative power. Upon this subject, Chief Justice Marshall says : "That the people have an original right to establish,...in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness, is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... | |
 | Law - 1877 - 1004 pages
...but, happily, not of an intricacy proportioned to its interest. It seems only necessary to recognize certain principles, supposed to have been long and well established, to decide it." And, in Cohens v. Virginia, he said: "In the case of Marbury v. Madison the single question before... | |
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That the people have an original right to establish, for their future government, such principles as, in their opinion, shall most conduce to their own happiness is the basis on which the whole American fabric has been erected. The exercise of this original... 
